Brian De Palma hasn’t made a movie since 2007’s Redacted, but it looks like he’s planning to return as he’s signed up to direct a new thriller called The Key Man, according to Deadline, which is likely to start shooting at the end of the year.
Joby Harold (Awake) wrote the screenplay, which centres on a single father who becomes a target of the government because his body holds the answers to many important national secrets. Quite how someone’s body can contatin national secrets hasn’t been revealed, but perhaps he’s got a mole that reveals the name of CIA agents or something. The project has been compared to paranoid 1970s thrillers such as Three Days of the Condor and Marathon Man.
That makes it a good fit for De Palma, who’s career has been marked with an obsession with homage to past films, and who himself first found success making 70s thrillers., such as Obsession, Carrie and Blow Out.